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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 20m

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine invading an American city for fascism then getting recalled because the dear leader saw you on TV and thought you were too fat and unattractive.

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 14h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 26m

Mélenchon yet again going out of his way to make people think that horseshoe theory may not be totally mad.

Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 30m

EN DIRECT, gouvernement Lecornu : RN et LFI ont déposé leur motion de censure respective, Macron appelle les partis à « œuvrer à la stabilité »

L’issue de ces motions dépendra du PS, qui exige du premier ministre une suspension de la réforme des retraites. Depuis l’Egypte, où il va participer à un sommet sur la paix à Gaza, le chef de l’Etat a « demandé à tout le monde de se ressaisir ».

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 31m

“X :: of the Family :: Y::”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 32m

Wait until the next squad update. We’re already strip-mining TH, 7 and 9.

timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 44m

Refs get a lot of stick, sometimes deserved, but a ref who sees a weakness, works on it and comes back better deserves as much praise or more as a player who does so; because a better ref makes thirty players better.

Chwarae teg, Ben.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 50m

In passing: Ben Whitehouse was bloody impressive as a referee on Friday. He was dealing with an Edinburgh team on full dogshot mode but kept control and was making fast and accurate calls without ducking the call.

His time doing TMO has brought him on a lot as ref and it’s great to him improving.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1h

And if this really is the end of the phase of conflict in the Middle East that started on 7 October 2023 then perhaps the only clear winner is a once obscure insurgent leader called Ahmed al Sharaa.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 2h

It’s why putting priests, grandmothers and others at the front is so effective: you can’t lie to yourself about shooting at someone who could be your grandmother, at a priest carrying a monstrance to give communion. Those faces are your Us.

They need to see the pricetag of shame before they buy it.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 2h

That MAGA bubble has the same role as the Posen speeches; justifying a massively lesser evil, but the same of assuaging shame at doing evil.

Make an Other, tell yourself the Other isn’t Us, that you have to defend Us against the Other, so I’m not really doing something shameful, right? Right…?

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 2h

To do this is evil. It should carry a shame-price.

Those doing this, are, however, in bubble where creatures like Jim Jordan proclaim this as “The Lord’s work” in order to buy off that shame-price that should haunt those doing it for the rest of their days.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h

ICE GOONS arrested a father and mother in front of their child.
Chicago, Illinois

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 2h

Gitta Sereny quite liked Albert Speer, and destroyed any defence he had against his guilt. She notes that the redeeming quality he had was that he suffered shame for his complete amoral failure in going along with murderers.

Shame at what was being done motivated the July 20th plotters.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 2h

If you ever look at Himmler’s Posen speech, it is all about assuaging the shame. It’s murderers trying - failing - to talk themselves out of guilt. Even the worst of the worst had to try to twist morality to a place where they could offload the shame.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 2h

Thread.

There is unquestionably toxic shame, to be fought; but societies cannot function without a shame-price for those who do wicked things.

Shame is friction that slows the campaigns of evil, and the higher you make the shame-price, the more will be unwilling to pay that price of campaign.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5h

And the more the stronger the effect: your goal is for the thought to cross their mind, "if I do this, I can never go home again" - to conjure the near certainty of social ostracism and enduring, permanent, *universal* stigma.

Because the one thing humans fear more than death is shame.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 2h

This is why you want priests - Archbishop Tutu, Fr. Dowling with the monstrance - in the front line.

You want those with guns to start thinking, “If I give or follow this order, will I go to hell?”

Pre-emptive shame and guilt are friction that slow down criminal actions in conflicts like this.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 2h

I have always thought this is not just a brilliant piece of film-making, but that it gets how a system breaks when it crosses the line.

Stephen Rea, in passing, was a young actor in Belfast when the August 1969 riots led to the Troubles.

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V For Vendetta 2006 - Anarchy In The UK Scene

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 9h

interesting that justice barrett thinks it's appropriate for a judge to appear on a transparently partisan propaganda network like FNC

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 3h

I genuinely don’t know. There’s a lot of convergent evolution in food, mind.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 11h

This raises some rather obvious questions about what he was told at that medical.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 11h

The Nobel Committee have broken him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "This will be my 8th war I've solved. And I hear there's a war now going between Pakistan & Afghanistan. I said, 'I'll have to wait until I get back. I'm doing another one.' In fairness to the Nobel committee, this was picked for 2024. But there are those who say you could make an exception"

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 12h

Irish people do not eat corned beef and cabbage. Bacon and cabbage, yes; corned beef, no. There’s a regional thing in Cork of spiced beef - former RN victualling going to the West Indies and bringing back spices - but the idea that corned beef and cabbage is Irish is American in origin, not Irish